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There are multiple types of scams using fake profiles and they become more complex and advanced as efforts to combat them push forward.

Please see our article «How to Avoid Online Dating Scams» for more information on the types of scams used and how to tell if you are in contact with a scammer.

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We usually see 3 different type of scam videos, the first and most expensive are lengthy video productions shot using hired local actors, complete with rented office spaces, mansions, and cars.

Several conclusions now can be drawn: (1) research grants are used to pay for indirect expenses by all science faculty researching in a laboratory, (2) many scholarly investigations by faculty not needing to work in a research laboratory have their indirect expenses paid by some internal budget at the same institutions, (3) research grant awards for indirect expenses at some institutions exceed the amount given for direct expenses, and, (4) direct experience with paying for indirect expenses leads many Principal Investigators to have questions and suspicions that some type of hidden purpose or scam might be going on with the current system for using research grant funds to pay for indirect expenses.

Your chances to run into this type of scamming grow, if you choose to use an unknown little local dating site.

But the thing that is unique to social networks and online dating services is that some of the abuses taking place there are not finance related, they are behavior related, posting of inappropriate content for example, stalking kids or using a platform to spam other accounts, using a platform to perpetrate other types of fraud against members, the so called Nigerian scam for example.

There are several types of dating scam that never use false pictures (see section below).

It is a text book example of a phishing scam — the very type of scam that was likely used for tricking some of the celebrities caught in the nude photo leak into disclosing their personal account login information to hackers.

Communications of this type appear to be part of a scam being orchestrated by someone using Chambers» name illegally and without authorisation.

Read LAWPRO's update and warning to make sure you understand the different types of legal matters that the fraudsters are using for these frauds and can recognize the red flags of a bad cheque scam.

The move comes as cryptocurrency use is on the rise, and as the new type of currency spikes, so do scams.

Definition: This type of scam typically uses one or a combination of phishing strategies to lure investors to transfer coins to a fake wallet address controlled by the scammers during a project's public token sale.

The goal behind the ban, according to Google's director of sustainable ads Scott Spencer, is to protect the search giant's audience from «deceptive content» served by unscrupulous actors that use cryptocurrency, as well as other types of offers to scam people online.